Hail-Hydra.com Redirects to Official White House Website

Some merry prankster is using the Marvel terrorist organization to make a conspiracy-laden point.

2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier made the fictional terrorist organization Hydra into an internet meme, thanks to scenes of characters suspiciously whispering "Hail Hydra" to each other, denoting their allegiance to the bad guys. With Hydra back in the public eye thanks to both comic book and television storylines, the meme has also returned — and upped its game significantly.

While Marvel attempts to distance its current Secret Empire Hydra comic book storyline from real-world parallels, it's worth remembering that the original Secret Empire — an offshoot of Hydra — was headed by a previous U.S. president. The 1974 Captain America and The Falcon storyline by Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema showed an unnamed president commit suicide when his identity became known, in an allusion to the then-contemporary Watergate scandal surrounding Richard Nixon.